Road crews said they could have a tough time keeping parts of Interstate 540 clear of sleet and snow during the weekend.

Construction crews are working on I-540 between Bentonville and Fayetteville. Snowplows will be able to push ice off the road as far as concrete barriers will allow.

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“When they’re able, I think they come in and try to pick it up and move it,” said Jeff Stroud, a resident engineer with the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. “Other than that, you just have to wait for Mother Nature to melt it.”

Stroud said crews cannot move the barriers.

“From 8 at night to 7 in the morning is the only time we’re going to allow them to perform some of that work, so there’s a lot more involved with it than just moving them over a couple feet,” Stroud said.

Jonathan Wade, a driver from Fayetteville, was reluctant to go around construction zones.

“You know that everyone else that’s going to go around them are just going to create huge traffic jams,” Wade said. “So either way, it’s kind of a lose-lose in this kind of weather.”

Stroud said officials took into account the problem of ice and snow being shoved up against the barriers when they planned the project.